Bashar Musleh

Bashar Musleh was a Palestinian al-Qaeda member from the Hamburg cell.

Biography
Bashar Musleh was born in Palestine to a Sunni Muslim family, and he came to Hamburg, Germany for his studies due to the turmoil of the First Intifada back home. Musleh hated Lebanon for its killing of Palestinians during the Lebanese Civil War, and he got into an argument with fellow al-Quds Mosque attendee Ziad Jarrah in 1996, urging Jarrah to prove that he was still committed to the Palestinian/Islamist cause by blowing himself up. Musleh was one of the many radical Islamists that studied in Hamburg and met at the mosque, and he would later befriend Jarrah as he was radicalized and reintroduced to Islam after years of secularism.